Homerun South Park

Anyone else watching?

They are ripping the ever living hell out of Nascar!

fan of NASCAR, but it is supposed to be pretty funny. can you do this Cartman? yes, Butters, I've had a lot of practice being poor and stupid.

I don't really think it was that great...none of the commentary on the sport was about anything other than being poor and stupid. They could have at least thrown a caution for a driver sneezing or something. I feel like they do little to no research before writing an episode.

Platinum90 wrote: I feel like they do little to no research before writing an episode.

True, they didn't have Danica say "well," "um," or "ya know."

It's on Hulu if anybody didn't catch it.

I love South Park, but I thought that episode was one of their weaker ones of the last couple seasons. Although when the doctor says all the injurys cartman sustained after his crash, he also says he also has '3 tiny vaginas growing in his stomach, and they're all sparkling clean'. That got a laugh out of me.

Is that show still on? Wow. Good for them!

I missed last night's episode... but the Harley one from earlier this season ranks as some of the best TV ever.

RossD wrote: I love South Park, but I thought that episode was one of their weaker ones of the last couple seasons.

+1
I like the episodes that have some social comment or basically the episodes that say what everyone is thinking but no one says.
Not to defend Nascar but at the very core the premise was off.
All of us here know all to well that the easiest way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large fortune.
Sure, you can be poor to be a nascar fan but not if you are a driver.

I thought it was good, and they mostly correctly showed the drivers as intelligently answering questions about their sport.

The cars looked to be pretty accurate to the COT, too.

Eh - not their greatest episode ever, but whatever. Their idea is to make fun of everything equally, so I guess it's racing's turn. Funny enough.

Ian F wrote: I missed last night's episode... but the Harley one from earlier this season ranks as some of the best TV ever.

QFT!

Ian F wrote: I missed last night's episode... but the Harley one from earlier this season ranks as some of the best TV ever.

Plus eleventy-seven billion. That show speaks the troof.

That was a one-line episode if i've ever seen one......SAFE TO USE EVERYDAAAAAYY!

Yeah, aside from the "USE IT EVERY DAY!!!" moments, it was a pretty weak episode. It wasn't nearly as funny as the Harley or Whale Wars episodes.

conesare2seconds wrote:

Ian F wrote: I missed last night's episode... but the Harley one from earlier this season ranks as some of the best TV ever.

QFT!

BRRaAAAh-BAhhBBBAa ABBABABBbbrAAh!

I wasn't born with a plastic spoon in my mouth like u kenny

LOL

The NASCAR episode was just replayed tonight... yeah... one of the weaker ones...

jrw1621 wrote:

RossD wrote: I love South Park, but I thought that episode was one of their weaker ones of the last couple seasons.

+1 I like the episodes that have some social comment or basically the episodes that say what everyone is thinking but no one says. Not to defend Nascar but at the very core the premise was off. All of us here know all to well that the easiest way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large fortune. Sure, you can be poor to be a nascar fan but not if you are a driver.

it was one of the weaker episodes that they've done lately, but it did have kind of a clever plot..

the whole point of the episode was to show how stupid and misguided Eric Cartman's view of the world is.

the part at the press conference when he told all the other drivers- Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Danica Patric (who doesn't even drive a Cup car...), Jeff Gordon, and a few other multi millionaires- that he was even more poor and stupid than they were pretty much summed up the entire plot.

i guess it would be in bad form to detail some of the finer details that they got wrong- the wing on the cars has been replaced with a spoiler, the standing starts when the green flag waves, etc.

pinchvalve wrote: Is that show still on? Wow. Good for them!

Best response ever!

The first 2 or 3 seasons are almost nothing like the show now. The kids had a roll reversal with the parents. Now Stan and Kyle are the voice of reason and their parents do all the stupid stuff (Cartman still does stupid stuff.) Randy Marsh is one of the best characters on the show now. Like when Randy wants to get cancer so he can get medical weed. Stan walks into the kitchen to see Randy with his balls pressed against the running microwave oven and asks Stan "to get your dad a beer?" Stan just walks away. I could go on, and on. 'Night of the Living Homeless' is one of my favorites.

RossD wrote: The first 2 or 3 seasons are almost nothing like the show now. The kids had a roll reversal with the parents. Now Stan and Kyle are the voice of reason and their parents do all the stupid stuff (Cartman still does stupid stuff.) Randy Marsh is one of the best characters on the show now. Like when Randy wants to get cancer so he can get medical weed. Stan walks into the kitchen to see Randy with his balls pressed against the running microwave oven and asks Stan "to get your dad a beer?" Stan just walks away. I could go on, and on. 'Night of the Living Homeless' is one of my favorites.

the show is done from the perspective of a bunch of 4th graders- the stuff the parents do is going to seem kind of silly. my favorite Randy Marsh performance was in "2 Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", and the one where "global warming" caused the neighboring town to flood..

I dunno. I kept thinking the whole NASCAR thing was a metaphor for something else, though I never put my finger on it. In my finger's defense, it was full of vodka and various other mind-alter-ers.

actually after watching the show again, i think they were implying nascar needs more exciting drivers behind the wheel instead of these "white bread" jimmy myjohnson style drivers who whine about every possible thing. They need the good ole southern boys back in Nascar who beat and bang and whom you can't understand when interviewed like Ward Burton.

Yeah, not one of their best episodes but not bad. Cartman gobbling Vagisil in the Wal Mart aisle was gross but oh so funny.

The Harley fag and global warming episodes rank up there with the first Cartman 'anal probe' and 'respect my authorati!' as some of the funniest stuff they've ever done.